Morris tribune., 1887-12-21


territories, with their population Of, per-
haps, 62, 100000 today. The wholos amount
of our export and import trade together has
never, think, reached 81, 200, 00aO00 any
ono year. Our internal home trade on $780,
900 miles of railway, along $1,000 miles Of
ocean coast, over the five great lakes and
along 10000 miles of navigable rivers,
reaches the enormous annual aggregate of
moro than $40, 600, OD0C coo, and perhaps this
year $50, 000, Oc0 ,OOO
rLLrMITABIE FREE TRADE AT HOME.
ut is into this illimitah.e trade, even now
in its infancy and destined to attain a mag
nitude not dreamed OF twenty years age, that
the Europeans are struggling to enter. 1t Is
the heritage Of tho American people, of their
children ana Of their chi,slsens children. 1t
Gives am absolutely FREQ trade oven a terri
tory nearly as large as all Earopc, and tho
profit is all our own. The genuine free trader
appears unable to see CT comprehend that the
continental trade--not oar exchanges with
Europe--is the great source of cur prosper
|ity President Cleveland now plainly pro-
poses pulley that win admit Europe to
share OF this trade
A NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY NEEDED.
s.Bs,t you are in favor of extending our for
eigils trade, are yoa hotsn'
NEertainly I am, in all practical and adj
vantngeous ways, but moi on TIE principle of
the f-sc traders, by which we shall be
constantly exchanging tclhr. for dime.
Moreover, the foreign trade is often very
defusis'e. Cotton Is r&iauiact;lred in the
city of my residence. II = box Of cotton
goods is scl.t .00 miles to the province of
New Bralewick il IS 10. eiga trade. If ship
ped Il, eca miles roa,sd Cape Hum to Wash
incton territory it is t,os,t tic trade The
nla.siit,iSsse Of Tho Union and tie immensely
Of its internal trace require row political
economy. The t-cat;scs written for Euro
pean states do rot grasp our peculiar situa-
tion.n r.
THE SOUTH isEs9i5, rleoTEC ZION.
/ SHOW will the rrcsi' .csat's mess go be taken
in the south.' II tio1'a dare To answer that
question The truth he; ,s.a so long otscured
by certain local eues:icas of unreasoning
prejudice that nobody cal hope for indus
trial enlightenment a,.io,ts t.ici' leaders just
yet. But in my We" 1.ie soath above all
sections of tho C..ic. needs q. protective
tariff The two Ni.,ssi,;.;L;, f,os.a Carolina,
Kentuck.-, Missouri, Tennessee, alabama and
Georgia have enormous sssssa,1,., and facili-
ties for developing a;id !G,,;l6l.s manufac-
| lures. They cannot d. I, ing without
protection. Even pres.rc5 - vast as some of
those states have made win lie checked if the
presidents message is enacted iato law. Their
senator's and representatives can prevent it,
but they are SO usesl to following anything
labeled Democratic that very probably they
will follow the president and hight the prog
ress already made b the tilla some of the
southern states get free iroa ore and coal,
-.
sion to sit down and calculate the value of
Democratic free trade to their local inter
ests.''
THE FALLAcY OF ADMITTING RAW MATERIAL.
"Will mot the presidents Recommendation
to admit raw material find strong supports"
'Not by wise protectionis.s III our time.
Perhaps some greedy manufacturers may
think that with free coal or free iron ore
they can do great things, but if they should
succeed in trying will, as the boys say, catch
it on the rebound If the homo trade in raw
material is destroyed or seriously injured
railroads will be the first to feel it.
If that vast interest is crippled in
| any direction the financial fabric
| of the whole country will feel
it quickly and seriously. If any man can
give reason why We should arrange the
tariff to favor the raw material of other
countries in "a competition against our ma
terial of the same kind, / should like to hear
It, Should that recommendation of the presi
dent be approved it wouiI turn 100000
American laborers out of employment before
| it had been a year in operation"
4 FULL. AND FAIR CONTEST ON THE ISSUE
f. ssWhat must be the marked and general
effect of the presidents messagem
SIT viii bring the country where it ought
| to be brought-to full and fair contest
ON the question of protection. The presi
dent himself makes it the one ISSUE
| by presenting no other in his messag,
think it well to have the question sett ed
The Democratic party in power is d standing
/ menace To the industrial prosperity of the
country That menace should be removed ii
the policy it foreshadows should be made
certain. Nothing is so mischievous to
business as uncertainty nothing so paralyz-
| ing as doubt.n G. WIS.